I Was Running on Heroku with my Woes

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So I Googled all the errors I was getting with Heroku and npm. I remember having an issue with npm (Node package manager), that every package I tried to install, it would error out. I found that running:

sudo npm install espress

for example, eliminated most of the errors, which means one of the folders Node accesses in my home folder has a permissions conflict. I know I could run a command with chown to open things up, but I found a solution a while back. I\’ll have to look for the same thing again to fix the need to run npm as a superuser.

So once I installed dependencies, I still had errors, the app kept crashing on the server. I Googled some more but didn\’t quite understand what I needed to get done.

So, what do sane people do when they need an instruction on something but no kind of text is helping?

YouTube.

I did all of the steps in this video. I added the text to my server.js file. But when I went to my app\’s url, I got the text on the server.js file. I couldn\’t understand why. I didn\’t understand that, when I went to the Heroku remote branch of my app in git in iTerm, the only real code there was the npm-logs and server.js, and things on the root of the folder, nothing of the real app. I thought, \”Heroku doesn\’t see what is in subdirectories of the root repository folder\”. So more Googling.

I found this Gist on Github (which I forked) about Yeoman scaffolding and deploying that scaffold on GitHub. Woo! I am still working on it but will set this thing up soon. I had to erase both remote repositories and push them up again. It\’s a real mess but I am learning.